These stories follow ordinary people caught between the pincers of
aggressors, leading to actions at once deplorable, perplexing, and
heroic. Built around the events of the Soviet Budapest Offensive at
the end of World War II and its long shadow, the stories in Siege
13 are full of wit, irony, and dark humor. In a series of linked
stories that alternate between the siege itself and a contemporary
community of Hungarian emigres who find refuge in the West, Dobozy
utilizes a touch of deadpan humor and a deep sense of humanity to
extoll the horrors and absurdity of ordinary people caught in the
crosshairs of brutal conflict and its silent aftermath. Observing
the uses and misuses of history, and their effect on individuals
and community, Dobozy examines the often blurry line between right
and wrong, portraying a world in which one man's betrayal is
another man's survival, and in which common citizens are caught
between the pincers of aggressors, leading to actions at once
deplorable, perplexing, and heroic. Dobozy's stories feature
characters, lost forever in the labyrinth built on the thin border
between memories and reality, past and present, words and silence.
Like Nabokov, Tamas Dobozy combines the best elements of European
and American storytelling, creating a fictional world of his own.
(David Albahari, author of Gotz and Meyer). Illuminating the horror
and absurdity of war with wit and subtlety, Tamas Dobozy explores a
world in which right and wrong are not easily distinguished, and a
gruesome past manifests itself in perplexing, often comical ways.
Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Praise for Siege
13 "Alice Munro . . . Isaac Babel . . . Those comparisons may sound
daunting, but Dobozy has mastered the technical conventions of his
craft . . . This vivid rendering of Hungarian history as a
nightmare from which no one quite wants to awake is Dobozy's finest
achievement." --Garth Risk Hallberg, The New York Times Book Review
"The sheer variety of Dobozy's approaches to telling stories, and
his commitment not only to provoke thought but to entertain,
constitute a virtuoso performance. Siege 13 is without question one
of my favorite story collections ever." --Jeff VanderMeer, The
Washington Post "A superb collection of short stories that revisits
two of the deadliest months in Hungarian history. The book tells
the stories of those who hid, those who fought, those who betrayed,
those who escaped and those who died, and how the effects of the
siege still linger, three-quarters of a century later. . . . Siege
13 is one of the best books of the year." --Mark Medley, National
Post (Canada)
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